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H1Z1 – is that church going to be defence enough against a zombie horde?

A teaser site has gone up for what looks like being a new Sony Online Entertainment game, with a full reveal expected tonight.

The Last Of Us Remastered isn’t the only Sony news today, or even the only zombie game the company seems to have in production at the moment.

The name H1Z1 is a reference to a 2009 Internet hoax based on the real H1N1 swine flu virus. Whether that means the final game will be called something different isn’t clear but the teaser website is simply www.h1z1.com

According to PC Gamer Sony registered the trademark back in January, and although the teaser image of a spooky-looking town doesn’t have any specific references to zombies the name certainly implies their presence.

The images above and below were tweeted by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) president John Smedley at around the same time and show what seems to be a small rural town in America.

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Like most of SOE’s stuff the game will probably initially be released on PC, but it’ll undoubtedly also come to the PlayStation 4 – given that PlanetSide 2 is already on its way and DC Universe Online appeared on the console from launch.

The latest tweet from Smedley suggests that the game will be show on a livestream Twitch channel named Game Talk Live today, at what works out at 1am in the morning UK time.

The show will be apparently feature actual games footage and according to Smedley’s captitalisation-free tweet: ‘you can play it yourself soon. and by play I mean play fully’.